何其亮、张晔编著的《英释中国传统文化(第2版)》主要是向外国读者介绍中国悠久的传统风俗文化，以帮助人们向外国友人传播中国文化。本书从语言的角度切入，分十二个专题来介绍中国的传统文化，如姓氏与文化、服饰与文化、中国传统中药与武术，中国得的佛教和道教等等。书中的文字偏重语言的口语表达特征，有利于传播的推广。不仅是一本好的英语专业学生的口语教材，更是一本优秀的对外汉语教学的读本。

This is a book about Chinese culture in English. What is culture and how to introduce Chinese culture to the world seems to be an interesting and worthwhile job to do. While many foreign friends show interests in learning Chinese language, this book intends to discuss Chinese culture by way of language perspective. Since China is a country with over 5,000 years of history, the book chooses to discuss the language and its cultural background, i.e. words with cultural meaning and cultural words. In this way, the book wishes to open a new vista with the following subject areas: 1) Culture, Traditional Chinese Culture and the Characteristics of the Han Nationality; 2) Names and Culture of the Han Nationality; 3) Dress and Culture; 4) Chinese Cuisine, Chinese Tea and Wine Culture; 5) Animal Words and Culture; 6) Plants Words and Culture; 7) Solar and Heavenly Stems, Important Festivals; 8) Color and Culture; 9) Numbers and Culture; 10) Figurative Use of Words; 11) Traditional Chinese Medicine and Wushu (Martial Arts); and 12) Buddhism and Taoism in China. In addition, ten supplementary readings have been purposely chosen for a better and richer insight of Chinese culture.

Chapter 1 Culture，Traditional Chinese Culture and the Characteristics of the Han Nationality

 1．Culture

 2．Traditional Chinese Culture

 3．The Characteristics of the Han Nationality

 4．The Unification Principle

 5．The Closed Nature

 6．The Recognition Principle

Chapter 2 Names and Culture of the Han Nationality

 1．Surnames of the Han Nationality

 2．Development and Distribution of Different Surnames of the Han Nationality

 3．Cultural Values of Names

Chapter 3 Dress and Culture

 1．About the“Head”

 2．About Dress

 3．About the“Foot”

 4．About Clothes Texture

 5．About Personal 0rnaments

Chapter 4 Chinese CuisineChinese Tea and Wine Culture

 1．Chinese Cuisine

 2．Tea Culture

 3．Wine Culture

Chapter 5 Folkway Culture(Ⅰ)：Animal Words

 1．Dragon

 2．Phoenix

 3．Tiger

 4．Horse

 5．Cattle

 6．Pig

 7．Mouse

 8．Hare

 9．Tortoise

 lO．Mandarin Duck

 11．Swan Goose

 12．Chicken

 13．Magpie and Crow

 14．Crane

 15．Bat

Chapter 6 Folkway Culture(Ⅱ)：Plant Words

 1．Willow

 2．Peach

 3．Apricot

 4．Pine

 5．Bamboo

 6．Plum

 7．Lotus

 8．Other Plants

Chapter 7 Folkway Culture(Ⅲ)：Solar Terms，Heavenly Stems， Earthly Branches and Traditional Festiveals

 1．The Division of 24 Solar Terms

 2．The 24 Solar Terms

 3．Details of the 24 Solar Terms

 4．The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches

 5．A Cycle of Sixty Years

 6．Traditional Festivals

Chapter 8 Colors and Culture

 1．Yellow

 2．Red

 3．Green

 4．Black

 5．White

Chapter 9 Numbers and Culture

 1．“一”

 2．“二”

 3．“三”

 4．“四”

 5．“五”

 6．“六”

 7．“七”

 8．“八”

 9．“九”

 10．“十”

 11．“百”“千”“万”

 12．“零”

Chapter 10 Figurative Use of Words

 1．Figurative Use of Words and Expressions

 2．Figurative Use of Colloections

 3．Collocations with Cooking and Food

 4．Other Figurative Expressions

 5．Figurative Uses from History Records

Chapter 11 Traditional Chinese Medicine and Martial Arts

 1．Traditional Chinese Medicine(中药，zhongyao)

 2．Martial Arts

Chapter 12 Religious World

 1．Buddhism in China

 2．Taoism in China

Supplementary Readings

 1．Qi Pao

 2．Chinese Silk

 3．Chinese Knot

 4．Four Famous Chinese Embroidery Styles

 5．Peking Opera

 6．Xiangsheng

 7．Traditional Chinese Medicine

 8．Chinese Painting

 9．Chinese Tea Culture

 10．Chinese Wushu (Kongfu)

References(参考书目)